Vision of a New Instrument Orchestra
:: new timeless instruments, committed performers, orchestral forms
:: simplicity, virtuosity, precision, interpretation, distinct timbral character
:: large ensembles, new and traditional musical structures, score rehearsal and performance
BIG PICTURE
To build electronic instruments that rival or exceed the complexity,
expressiveness and well-defined character of traditional orchestral
instruments.
To build an orchestra and/or chamber orchestra of instrumentalists deeply
committed to their electronic instruments, whether they have built these
instruments themselves, or are in close collaboration with an instrument
builder.
To personally commit to performing and perfecting complex and expressive
electronic instruments for a period of time long enough to support the
lifecycle of orchestra building, score composition and one or more seasons
of practice, rehearsal, conducting and public performance.
NEW INSTRUMENTS
To build electronic instruments in any form, whether digital or analog,
pure electronics or hybrid combinations with non-electronic elements,
subject to the requirement that they only sound when peformed by their
instrumentalists.
To build instruments that demonstrate simplicity of design, yet
manifest inifinite emerging properties of virtuosic expression.
Such instruments are easy to play musically in a simple manner by
anyone with the gift for musical expression, but nonetheless are
robust enough in their interactive and affordable interface and rich
enough in their timbral signature to be worthy of a lifetime of
study and mastery.
To build instruments that, in addition to simplicity and virtuosity,
demonstrate the characteristic of a clearly identifiable timbral character,
though it may vary considerably across its frequency range, and which are
precise enough that careful execution may repeat any given performnce,
subject only (and only when appropriate) to the common sense vicissitudes
and nuances of interpretation and artistic license.
ORCHESTRAL TRADITION
To combine a large group musicians committed to their new instruments into
an orchestra and/or chamber orchestra for the purpose of performing new
works of live electronic music.
To score new music for new instruments roughly in the manner of the
traditional orchestral tradition, yet to be tolerant of all current and
future learning with regard to the creation of scores, whether strictly
through-composed, subject to chance operations, improvised or otherwise.
To recognize the traditional and timeless forms of orchestral and chamber
music scoring, at any scale, and apply them to new electronic instruments.
To interpret, arrange or adapt any historical orchestral score for
the new instrument orchestra, as appropriate.
To invent new forms of scoring, perhaps conceivable only in the context of
an orchstra of new instruments.
If this sounds interesting to you, please contact
neworchestra@mobilesound.org
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